Esther,
There is no real problem scheduling an Exec Session for a Board meeting. The PITAC and
all other federal Advisory Boards do that ALL the time. An open NON-Board meeting is
not an OPEN BOARD Meeting.
The public has a right to see how the issues are handled etc in such an organization
and the best way to ensure that is to have OPEN Board meetings.
Sorry,
Dave
At 10:09 AM 1/11/99 -0500, Esther Dyson wrote:
>Yes. It is in our bylaws and in all the public statements we have made.
>
>Basically, we could have had "open" board meetings with executive sessions
>that were closed, but we figured (the Initial Board voted) that this (below)
>is the best way to do it. The meeting on Wednesday is open,and with the
>Board, but it is not a "board meeting." DUring it we expect to consider
>proposals, ask questions, debate issues among ourselves publicly and with
>the public, and so on. It makes it easier for everyone to have a clear-cut
>schedule, rather than invite people to come to an "open" board meeting and
>cool their heels while we hold executive sessions. As also laid out in the
>bylaws, all Board votes on substantive issues will be on the record.
>
>Esther
>
> At 06:11 AM 11/01/99 -0500, you wrote:
>>At 03:08 AM 1/11/99 +0000, jeff Williams wrote:
>>>Esther and all,
>>>
>>> Is what Dave Farber saying here in reference to the Singapore meeting true?
>>>Please advise.
>>>
>>
>>
>>I hope I heard wrong but I was told by a Board person when I said I would
>be in Singapore for Apricot, that I should understand I would not be invited
>to the closed Board meeting on the 4 th but that there was a open general
>meeting on the 3 rd. I was surprised that the Board meeting was closed!!!!
>>
>>Dave
>>
>>
>>
>
>
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